Globalization: New Form of Colonization

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Globalization: A New Form of Colonization After the Second World War, a decolonization process took place - for previously slaved and colonized nations - supposedly ending almost four centuries of slavery and exploitation. It was followed by the end of the cold war and the beginning of a new era: Globalization. Although there is no exact definition of the word globalization, some experts believe that “the process of globalization not only includes opening up of world trade, development of advanced means of communication, internationalization of financial markets, growing importance of MNC’s, population migrations and more generally increased mobility of persons, goods, capital, data and ideas but also infections, diseases and pollution”…show more content…

She explains that, following the decolonization era, many developing countries – now independent – found themselves into enormous budget deficits. With no capital to finance their own economies, nor the technology to exploit their natural resources, they turned to private banks, for financing. However, their demands were overturned due to unreliability. With no choice left, they had to seek assistance from the International Monetary Fund, “an organization…working to…secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world” (IMF, 1). As the IMF explains it on its website, “an IMF loan is usually provided under an ‘arrangement’, which stipulates the specific policies and measures a country has agreed to implement to resolve its balance of payments problem”(IMF, Lending). These “arrangements” include policies referred as Structural Adjustments Policies (SAP) – often criticized for increasing poverty – or the steps toward globalization as some people refer to them. Shah also explains in her article “Structural Adjustment—a Major Cause of Poverty”, that, the SAP consists of agreements with the World Bank, and the

1. Discuss the European motives for expansion and colonization in the New
World.
There are many reasons that contributed to the expansion and colonization by Europeans into the New World. Europeans believed the New World a place to practice religion without religious persecution, a place to find plentiful resources and a place to start new.
Many Europeans felt that they could colonize the New World without fear of religious persecution due to English and European Reformations. Protestant…

When thinking of bullying, most people tend to think about the original form, where the bully harasses the victim in person; but, in this generation, cyberbullying is a new form of harassment that goes beyond the schoolyard. This way, individuals can be bullied all day and any day, but when you ask teens today, 81% of them think it is funny. (NPC) This shows that most teens do not think of cyberbullying as much of a threat, even though the rate in has gone up. In 2008–2009, the School Crime Supplement…

When some company runs some business, they are relatively weak at the start point. As firm passing trough the process of growing, they must survive all the threats and traps on that road. We can say that the most risky and hardest job to do when new company starting with some business is surviving that first period of probably a year or two. At the start point every businessman trying to go through that process step by step, so for example; if we plan to open some tourist agency, the first thing…

examples here: Globalization, Neo-Liberalism and the rise of New Social Movements. Very profound terms, I know. That is why I am going to define each of them briefly. Globalization, as common as it sounds, is not actually understood by most of us. Globalization promotes a global community among all countries in the world. It aims to bring a global culture that is obviously shared by everyone. A global community, a global culture, an interrelated economy, that is what globalization is all about. Second…

Clayton Partridge
World History to 1750
Professor Schultz
Colonization and the First Globalization
In order for one to gain a better knowledge of how terrestrial and ocean colonization unfolded in the Americas, Siberia, Africa, and China, a person must first understand the definition of colonization. Simply put, colonization is an ongoing process of control by which a central system of power dominates the surrounding land and its components. This means that a foreign government moves into…

A New Form of Expansion
Before the start of the Spanish-American War of the late
nineteenth-century and World War I in the early twentieth century, the
United States had encouraged expansion as being a way of gaining
power. For example, the Frontier thesis, conveyed that it is through
the expansion of new lands that humanity would continue to progress.
Also the United States portrayed its impatience to expand through
Manifest Destiny: the desire to expand from sea to…

Colonization of the New World
The discovery and colonization of the “New World” was one of the most significant and influential events in the known history of mankind. It has shaped our present by changing the course of our past and is a time of such great significance that it would be all but impossible to understand today without at least some comprehension of the why's of yesterday. What was it that drove such a myriad of people to risk so much to tame the wild and vast lands we now know as…

parents and families of the individuals who have died because of it. With that being said, there are 2 factors of “the rise in incidents of cyberbullying” that need to be taken into account when discussing how to prevent it. First, cyberbullying is the new generation of bullying, with virtually everyone on social media in today, acts of malice are bound to arise. However, does this mean that that we are becoming a society that strives to inflict injury on one other for entertainment? I think not, we must…

to avoid becoming a cyber-bully, like by not sending taunting texts (“Cyberbullying crackdown”). Another way to not become a cyber-bully is to never send a message intending to hurt someone (“Cyberbullying”). Sending deleterious Facebook postings is form of cyber bullying and should be avoided (“Cyberbullying Crackdown”). By not spreading lies or rumors online about others is another way to fight cyber bullying (“Cyberbullying”). Don’t pretend to be someone else to trick other people into revealing…

since 2007,” (Abelson 1). One of the American companies leading the global initiative, New Balance Athletic Shoe Inc., alone expects to increase its number of shoes manufactured in Indonesia to almost 6 million pairs over the next couple years (Abelson 1). This vast migration of manufacturing facilities is lead not only by the hunger for corporate profits, but also by the new international system of globalization. This system destroys international barriers and allows for enhanced communication,…